How to Use Your Eyes

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James Elkins's How to Use Your Eyes invites us to look at--and maybe to see for the first time--the world around us, with breathtaking results. Here are the common artifacts of life, often misunderstood and largely ignored, brought into striking focus. With the discerning eye of a painter and the zeal of a detective, Elkins explores complicated things like mandalas, the periodic table, or a hieroglyph, remaking the world into a treasure box of observations--eccentric, ordinary, marvelous.postage stamp suddenly begins to speak about its time and place, and the
thoughts of the person who designed it. ... Many people know how to tell an elm
from a maple or an oak, but fewer can do that in the wintertime, so I have
included a ... (The chapter on fingerprints will tell you how, following the official
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How to Use Your Eyes

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James Elkins

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Routledge - 2007-08-20

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